Yuval Noah Harari

Author of International Bestseller Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind

Twice Winner Polonsky Prize for Creativity and Originality

Professor, Department of History at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Prof. Yuval Noah Harari is the author of the international bestseller and critically acclaimed Sapiens:A Brief History of Humankind.

A specialist in world history, medieval history and military history, Harari's current research focuses on macro-historical questions: What is the relation between history and biology? What is the essential difference between Homo sapiens and other animals? Is there justice in history? Does history have a direction? Did people become happier as history unfolded?

Harari won the Polonsky Prize for Creativity and Originality twice, both in 2009 and 2012. In 2011 he won the Society for Military History’s Moncado Award for outstanding articles in military history. In 2012 he was elected to the Young Israeli Academy of Sciences.

Harari has contributed to numerous publications, including The BBC and Financial Times. His TED Talk on the rise of humans has received over two millions views.

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Prof. Yuval Noah Harari is the author of the international bestseller Sapiens:A Brief History of Humankind.

Harari specializes in world history, medieval history and military history. His current research focuses on macro-historical questions: What is the relation between history and biology? What is the essential difference between Homo sapiens and other animals? Is there justice in history? Does history have a direction? Did people become happier as history unfolded?

Harari also teaches a Massive Open Online Course titledA Brief History of Humankind. More than 80,000 students from throughout the world have participated in the first run of the course in 2013. The second run began in August 2014, and in its first three weeks 30,000 students joined it.

Harari won Polonsky Prize for Creativity and Originality twice, both in 2009 and 2012. In 2011 he won the Society for Military History’s Moncado Award for outstanding articles in military history. In 2012 he was elected to the Young Israeli Academy of Sciences.

He was born in Haifa, Israel, in 1976. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Oxford in 2002, and is now a lecturer at the Department of History, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.